- Current Events, Games, Nonfiction, Social aspects
For many, videogames are still viewed as a minor form of entertainment, shallow at best, harmful at worst. In this groundbreaking book, Steven Poole draws on movies, painting, history, and literature to analyze what he calls the "inner life" of videogames.
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Cool, warm, spare and classical in form.
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Steven Poole
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, Arcade Publishing, Fourth Estate
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781559705394
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First sentence
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